Chapter 1, Core Features of Spring Boot, is where you discover the charm of Spring Boot with its fundamental features to work with you as you build your app.

Chapter 2, Creating a Web Application with Spring Boot, teaches you how to craft the web layer for a Java app with ease, with both server-side and client-side options.

Chapter 3, Querying for Data with Spring Boot, shows you how to get the most out of your database with Spring Data.

Chapter 4, Securing an Application with Spring Boot, shows you how to use Spring Security’s cutting-edge features to lock down your app from bad guys, inside and out.

Chapter 5, Testing with Spring Boot, teaches you how to build confidence in your systems through testing with mocks and embedded databases, and even using Testcontainers combined with real databases.

Chapter 6, Configuring an Application with Spring Boot, shows you ways to tune and adapt your app once it’s built.

Chapter 7, Releasing an Application with Spring Boot, helps you discover multiple ways to take your app to production and put it in the hands of your users.

Chapter 8, Going Native with Spring Boot, shows you how to speed up your app by leaps and bounds using native images that start in subsecond time and don’t hog all your resources.

Chapter 9, Writing Reactive Web Controllers, teaches you how easy it is to write reactive web controllers and how they can be your key to a more efficient app.

Chapter 10, Working with Data Reactively, helps you discover how to query for data reactively using R2DBC and see how efficient your app can be.